Improvement in cooking-stoves



lhvirnn STATES artisti @rtree HUGII WV. MOSHER, OF COEYMANS, NEI/V YORK.

llVlPROVEM ENT IN COOKlNG-STOVS.

Speciiication forming part of Letters Patent No. 34,3115, dated February4, 1862.

.To all whom it may concern:

Be it knownv that I, HUGH W. MOSHER, of Coeymans, in the county ofAlbany and State of New York, have invented a new and ImprovedCook-Stove; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear,and exact description of the same, reference being had to the annexeddrawings, making a part of this specification, in which- Figure l is avvertical section of my invention, taken on the line :c Fig. 2. Fig. 2 isa vertical section ot' the same, taken on the line y y, Fig. l; Fig. 3,a portion of a frontview of saine; Fig. 4, a detached View of a gatepertaining to saine.

Similar letters of reference indicate correspending` parts in theseveral iigures.

The object of this invention is to obtain a cook-stove which will beself-feeding-that is to say, replenish itself or its lire-chamber withcoals for a considerable period of time and also be capable by a simpleadjustment of being converted from a self-feeding coal to an ordinarywood-burning stove.

To enable those skilled in the art to fully understand and construct myinvention I Will proceed to describe it.

A represents the body of the stove, which may be of quadrilateral orother suitable form. B is the oven, and C the fire-chamber. The oven Bhas fines ct d b c extending around it, the lines a d being at the backand extending about half-way underneath the bottom of the oven, the flueb being between the iiues c a, and the iiue c at the front and top ofthe oven. and tire-chamber. This is a very oommon arrangement of iiues,and therefore they require no further explanation.

The tire-chamber C extends upward as high as the oven B, and is entirelysurrounded by lues, the flue c being at its back between it and the ovenand extending over the top ot the iire-chamber and down in front of itto a point d, as shown clearly in Fig. l. At each side of thenre-chamber Cthere is a iiue e, the upper ends of which communicate withthe flue c. (See Fig. 2.) The fire-chamber coinmunicates with the sideflues e e by openings f f, which are some distance above the grate g orthe bottom of the fire-chamber. The

iire-c'hamber communicates at its back part with the iiue c by twoopenings h h, which are at the same height as the openings ff, andcommunicates at its front part with iiue c by passages z', which are ina plate D, that is iitted in the front of the stove and properly securedin position by a buttonj.

From this description it will be seen that the lire-chamber hasdraft-openings at all sides of it; and it will alsol beseen that owingto the height of the tire-chamber and the position of the draft-openingsffh hr2 a considerable space is obtained for coal above said openings.The tire-chamber C does not strictly extend above the draft-openings,for the coal above them does not ignite, but gradually settles down andsupplies or feeds the tire beneath. Therefore when the iire chamber C isiilled the fire will be fed or supplied with fuel in the lower part otthe chamber for a considerable length of time.

In the iiue c, directly back of the lire-chamber C, there is a damper k.The object of this damper is merely to allow scales, soot, 85o., whichmay collect in that part of cto be dropped down into the lower partthereof beneath the oven, from which it can be readily removed through adoor Z. (See Fig. l.)

At the front part of the top of the stove there is a door E. This doorforms a portion of the top plate m, and it is connected to the frontpart of the stove by joints n. (See Figs. l and 3.)

The Lipper part of the [ire-chamber C is provided with a iiap or door F,through which the ire-chamber may be supplied with coal when necessary,the door F. being turned down and the iiap F being turned up, as shownby dotted lines in Fig. l. The flap F When turned up closes the flue cat the front of the lire-chamber, and thereby prevents the coals passingdown in said flue.

If at any time it should be desired to burn Wood instead of coal, theplate D is removed and another one Ginserted inits place. This plate Ghas a grate H attached tz it, which, when plate G is inserted in thefront of the stove, extends across the tire-charfiber above thedratt-openings f f 77. h, (see lbtted lines, Figs. l and 2,) and the topplates o being removed the operation will be precisely the same as anordinary wood cook-stove.

I do not claim, broadly or irrespective of construction and arrangement,a lire-chamber provided With 10W draft-openings for the purand thedraft-openings f f h 72, as and for pose of obtaining a self-feedingstove; but the purpose specified.

I do claim as new, and desire to Secure by Letters Patent/ HUGH W.MOSHER.

The plate G, having a grate H attached, Witnesses: when used incombination with the front plate WVM. E. WITBECK,

of the stove, the fire-chamber C, ues a a c, JOHN P. STANTON.

